Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 14hWith the news from Brazil, I think we need to be clear eyed on our strategy. We need to target and excise the sources of reactionary social reproduction. Billionaire money is a part of it but the problems are more bottom-up/middle-out 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Syrian Refugee crisis was the spark for the populist right that the overly online and myopic hold GamerGate to be. 020
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A very 2020s form of sexism is all those memes about HR smiling as they turn down your application or otherwise rule over you. Dating apps have got to be the source of that resentment. 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If a politician does hollow out, it usually when they’ve been in there for multiple terms *and* their ambitions for higher office seem foreclosed. See Gillibrand. It’s sloth, not ambition, that’s the real poison 020
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I think the lesson there is Americans are tolerant of bad behavior if they don’t think you’re otherwise fucking up. I think the reflecting pool, west wing demolition, etc got salience because of liberation day, Iran, ICE, etc. If he was a do nothing president people wouldve looked the other way 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/20264chan is the origin point of so many political and social ills. Its reputation is mostly earned. But funny enough you have to have spent actual time there to realize 90% of the boards are for (insert hobby here) elitism where the racism feels more perfunctory than anything else. 060
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The taboo against anti semitism extending even to the right, like the unilateral world order, was an outlier of the post WW2 world. Whether we’re in a death spiral or just a “regression to the mean” remains to be seen. 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Brandon got the occasional bounce at least until late 2023ish 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It’s the diffuse, social form of the filibuster - a wall that prevents anything from changing too much for better or for worse. 020
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think a bearish stock market would be the final straw. Most Plan Trusters are old people who don’t really drive much and are sympathetic to bombing Iran - but love seeing their investments go up and up 0110
Reposted by Bear LinkedInPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I know there's really not much to be done about it but what bothers me most about politics these days is how we just can't be adults. The idea that middle class Americans today have it uniquely bad on any dimension is just such an embarassing sentiment, even if things can be better. 2405
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Wokeness will never win, and it will never fully go away. Both truths come down to the reality that at least 70% of people want it but only for their own group 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Goldilocks racism goes back to Ancient Greece. It has a long lineage in western cultures. I wonder if it’s a global trend. 050
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026New England boomers have an inexplicable fetish for moderate Republicans. The median retiree there has terabytes of Phil Scott x John McCain ship art on their hard drives 0163
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think saying “This MacBook was made by Apple, a monarchy” is an offense worthy of hanging by a flagpole maybe 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If we’re gonna win long term, deliverism doesn’t work and you can’t rely on generational charisma. You’re gonna have to destroy the sources of reactionary social reproduction. If Trump can knock down one on his own then have at it! 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Right populism treats the political community as a larger version of a biological community. It’s easy to extend the biological picture to a monarchy, aristocracy, etc. In a world where there’s mass franchise the natural conclusion is that the democracy is only for the volk. 050
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think far right populism is successful because it is the modern ideology most compatible with our base lizard brain. 1172
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I enjoyed his stand up in the past but it’s always been incredibly gender wars in a way that’s hard to stomach nowadays 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 02/10/20262/2 Americans have short memories. We don’t experience the Great Depression or late 1970s hardships that truly change politics such that one side runs the table for a while. The multiracial conspiracist dipshit coalition will both fall and then reassemble quickly like skeleton enemies in RPGs. 030
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 02/10/20261/2 Their coalition is too scatter brained and contradictory to have enduring longstanding power. However, I think they’ll be able to return quick. They’ll “gen z boss and a mini”, “HR wants you drafted then dead”, and balloon pop video a multiracial misogynist and anti LGBT coalition. 110
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I dont think that makes sense. If you are humanized, that’s bad. But if you are generic and post a link to a charity, it seems too flippant and thus insulting. There’s just no good answer here 110
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Democrats are the party of demos seen as whinging and annoying by their very essence (according to the American public) 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m reminded of a study I once read about where people more frequently report black students, black women to be specific, talking/being disruptive - even when they’re not! Social minorities get less grace. Even on “the left”, Platner and Fetterman got more grace than any woman or nonwhite would 120
Reposted by Bear LinkedInopfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 13/09/2026One of my half-joking crank theories/fears is that politics really *can* roughly be approximated as a right-left spectrum along which the population is evenly or at least bimodally distributed, and prior electoral consensuses were in part the result of simple informational inefficiencies. 3679
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cranks realigned all to the GOP. They’re like the barbarian hordes beyond the imperial borders. When divided, they’re a nuisance. When a unifying Khan arrives they’re a civilization destroying force. Thank God JD Vance is not Khan material. RFK had that potential but he’s tied to this sinking ship 041
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They think race is more “real” in our world than it is in The Elder Scrolls 080
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Maybe I’m misreading but I interpreted the scene with the phone call at the office as her being overwhelmed by experiencing “feelings” for the first time. It’s also heavily implied she shot that dog. I thought her somewhere on the spectrum for anti social personality disorders. Perhaps I’m tripping 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I got a temporary legal job because I lucked into it. I applied at the right time and the employer had extenuating circumstances that meant they needed someone right away. Every interview before was a total dead end, if I even got one 030
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We saw like 10ish point swings in Trump Double Digit states from 2016-2018. And now he doesn’t have economic approvals and his base is less enthusiastic. I share your instincts but the math isn’t absurd 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026She’s like a chaos god born from the resentments and anxieties of FOX News viewers 0110
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 25/09/20266 year itch only it feels like 10. Trump really got a second chance with both the public and elite. He had cultural acceptance and minimal checks on his power at the start of this term. And now he lost the positive economic approvals that buttressed him since 2017. 0101
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It was good and I miss it but McKay needs someone to tell him it pull it back a bit. At least here and there 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of those Coruscant make-work think tanks that insist the rise in human only hiring was getting rid of the Republic’s diversity excess, not prejudice 000
Reposted by Bear LinkedIn21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dave Chappelle (suddenly getting serious 50 minutes into a special): In 232 AC, Aerion Brightflame, my friend, died. He fucking died. 0261
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s depressing that the immovable 25% of the country are guaranteed like 45 senate seats at a bare minimum due to population distribution 010
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think he’s too egotistical to accept VP though. I don’t blame him. It’s do nothing and usually a dead end 000
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Her with Newsom as runner up then VP would be a Reagan-Bush Sr parallel 200
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“State level democrats protecting abortion gave swing voters a permission structure to vote for Trump” is a horrible possibility that challenges the incentive structure of politics. 020
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s like the inverse of conservatives that refuse to include Latino in the white category or throw young people a bone with home ownership. They have no idea how to reproduce their ideology and stick to the anti-education jihad 030
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Whether Corypheus was a historically progressive force that gets into utilitarian heaven depends on the player 030
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The rules are different for women. People in general are less likely to see sadism from them as righteous or earned. It’s like how only the left are called “scolds”. Gender (TM) just gives the broad lib-left an air of illegitimacy. People have to make an active effort to get over that hangup 020
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People who entertain the sport thing are funny to me. It marks you as the type of person who would’ve taken complaints about “forced bussing” completely at face value. 1130
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s the whites who don’t live near as many minorities that are the most moved by this too. It’s social media. Social de-localization has been a overwhelming net negative 001
Reposted by Bear LinkedInBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People on social media: “God are we even gonna win because of *insert reason*?! Trump will do *thing* to rig the results! The polls are wrong!” Actual Republicans right now: 1332754
Bear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 18/09/2026White nationalism has always been one of the supporting pillars of the GOP. Pence-ish religious conservatism lost a lot of purchase. 2012 proved there is no electoral audience for Reaganomics. (Trump still cuts taxes but half his voters want Peronism) White nationalism is all they got left. 010
